diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.xml
index b04bd0ee63..15e10aa62e 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail/chapter.xml
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ freefall		MX	20	who.cdrom.com</programlisting>
 
       <programlisting>customer1.org		MX	10	mail.myhost.com</programlisting>
 
-      <para>An <literal>A</literal>&gt; record is
+      <para>An <literal>A</literal> record is
 	<emphasis>not</emphasis> needed for <systemitem
 	  class="fqdomainname">customer1.org</systemitem> in order to
 	only handle email for that domain.  However, running